Anne Frank

Anne Frank (born Annelies Marie Frank) was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim whose wartime diary became one of the world’s best-known accounts of life in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist whose wartime diary became one of the world’s best-known accounts of life in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

Who she was

Born Annelies Marie Frank in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1929, Anne Frank and her Jewish family moved to Amsterdam to escape Nazi persecution. She is known for the diary she kept while hiding with her family from July 1942 until their arrest in August 1944.

Why it matters

Her diary, published posthumously in 1947 as *The Diary of a Young Girl*, became a classic work about the Holocaust and a widely studied primary source in Canadian schools. It offers a personal, human perspective on Nazi persecution and the experience of adolescence under extreme fear.

Key details

Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in early 1945, likely from typhus. Her father, Otto Frank, was the only one of the hidden group to survive. The diary remains one of the most read accounts of the Holocaust.